[smokaholik]

hiya to everyone on here and peace to u and ure family. May i share my story wiv those of u that are interested. i am from uk and my good friend was in pakistan getting married so that was all the excuse me and my 2 friends needed ( that and the amazing hash and the prospect of making bubble ) so we booked our tickets and went. Now i hate flying so well leave that bit out lol

upon arriving at lahore airport we went through custums and dually left, my mate who was geeting married was waiting for us outside, all of us had brough 7grams of chronic ova and the first thing i wantd to do was smoke lol, so we headed back to the hotel in the early morning smoking bluemoonshine in da back of a taxi admiring how buetiful pakistan is, what a start heheh.

when we got bak to the hotel and the smoke ws underway plans where made to head of to peshawer which is a 7 hour drive to an area call jamrud where i had a friend who sold amazing gardah/charas so we could start our travels lol so after a long flight and a heavy smoke we all slept till midday and on wakining we set of for peshawer which may i tell u is a buetiful scenic drive especially when ure in good company and theres plenty of weed to smoke.

we arrived in peshawar late in da eveing about 9 pm and jamrud is another 20 minute drive so we where pushing it for time as it was dark and jamrud is a no go area at night, it is what the people call alaka ghair (land of na law) where the pakistani goverment has no power and men go missing daily, and it is next to the famous khyber gates t the begging of the khyber pass, but hey we needed some chronic and i had my connection so we headed straight there. when we got there it was picth black apart from the little lanterns in the shops and there was a sandstorm blowing so the peaople we did see had there face covered totaly to protect form the sand, looking around i discovered how difficult it will be to locate my friends shop. We got out of the car and walked straight into shop, as soon as i walked in a could smell the hash and boy did it smell good. i said salaam to the guy and asked to see what he had in telling him i only wanted the zabardast gardah ( the absolute best polm) with wich he lifted a few plastic jars ontu the table and opened the top , now 1 of my freinds who came is white and he has been to amsterdam monthly as its cheap from the uk but when he seen what they had to offer his eyes bulged out , as i picked up that chunk of gardah i was handed it started tomelt in my hand and as i moulded in my hand it went darker and oiler, when i smelled it i instantly smelled the sativa in it and as my friends sniffed it they said the same, Now came the price, i told the guy i wanted 10 tola (100grams) and i said ill give him him 1000rps whcih is what i pay my firend the guy accepted so one transaction done haha.we left that shop and went across the road to anotha as my friend secretly pulled out anotha 1000ps note to hand to me, ( u deffo do not want to show large amounts of money at this time lol) as i stepped in i was still moulding that piece in my hands which where as sticky when trimming fresh bud makes them, i handed the shopkeeper the weed and said gimme something different to this, the guy smiled and pulled out the same jars from the othat shop and gave me a chunk which i smelled, str8 way the diffeerence was aprrent like when smoking kali mist to hashplant this gear was 100 indica smelling, it had that im gonna knock ure balls of and put u to sleep smell , i told the guy ill take 100grams if hell do it for 1000rps to whcih he agreed so anotha transaction was done, we all tried rolling a spliff in there but went i went to do the roll risla stuck to my fingaz and ripped everytime so i just threw the spliff in the ashtray and we left to visit some mor eshops which eneded up having the same polm. Imagine 3 tourists in a border town at night running from shop to shop to check out the goods lol we stood out like a sore thumb.

the last shop was called the Khyber general store and it was a young man inside about our own age so we went in and he showed us his gear, the first thing he showed was dry and hard so he went int the back and handed my friend anotha one, all i remeebr is my friends looking at and it melted in his hand and he smleed it and said "Yo this smells like the 73grade bubble" we knew we was onto a winner, paying the man at last we where done 300 grams of chronic to last us a while ( peace of mind haha ).

we headed back to peshawar and as my friends wher ebusy rolling spliffs my hands where still to sticky we stopped at KFC so i could get a munch and wash my hands, by the time i had come out my friends wehere tellin me that the driver was paranoid as we had to go thru a tool plaza and the car was smelling of weed. we aired the car out and drove from peshawer back to lahore content as hell lol.

Now he truoble begins, as we left NWFP province of pakistan and reached Punjab there is a toll plaza the locals refer to as attock walla pul ( iqbal shaheed toll plaza to u and me lol )i policeman at the side waved us down this wasnt the first time and they usually check the drivers licence and thats it this time he called me str8 out of the car told me he is frisking me and felt my ballz straight away where i was stashing the weed, and gues waht he found it, i looked behind me and my friends where being searched and the weed was found on them to , DAAAAAAAAM

as they where searchig my friend the white guy, they found recipet in his pocket for £700 of a travlers check hed chashed that morning, Oh oh they officer came to me and said uve been caught wiv ova a pow which is 250 grams to them and ure all going inside unless they get 50000 rps ( £500), this was abomshell to me but i flatly refused telling them that i aint got that much money, after an hour at the side of th emotorway with 13 officers arouand we endend up having 7000prs on us, the rst was in lahore, the ploice tokk 6000prs and left us wiv 1000 for fule to get back and the ytook the weed, bummer,the worst thing was some of the officers where saying to each other thats the amount is nothing anbd just let them go, but the grredy ones had anotha idea , we went back to lahore gutted and qiuet and it was a long drive at night so we all slept.
i awoke at about 5 am hoping to find where near lahore instead to find that where parked in a field nxt to a tree and ther is nothing around us, the driver has got his face on the steering wheel fast asleep and i have no idea where we are. in the end the driver got in the back seat and my friend the white guy drove the rest fo the journey back to lahore .

AND it has only been 24 hours since we landed . getting back to the hotel and smoking the couple of grams left of skunk we lft here was heaven phew i needed that smoke. the next day after the driver had been paid and left us we foundout that the one of the polce officers last night was the drivers cousin and the driver had phoned and told the police we weher coming when i was in KFC, No wonder they knew the weed was in our ballz
what a asshole

our friends in lahore when told of what happened wheres so hurt is was unbelivable, ones exact word where u can buy the whole police station wiv 6000rps and the ysaid we should have paid no more than 500 rps to a thousand tops, to them 6000rps is alot of money and even tho it aint theres they feel the loss of money.

they got us some gardah from lahore as we setteled there for a few days and the qaulity was good, not great but good, time for some shots i think for all those who have beared wiv me

[smokaholik]

heres some of the views on the way to peshawer from lahore and also some what we scored in lahore, 1500rps for 100grams a bit pricey but hey it was good smoke and it hewlped us chill so we could planthe rest of our holiday and bud hunt

[smokaholik]

[smokaholik]

after a few days spent admiring the fabulous and ancient 2000year old city of lahore and what a city and eating in lavish 5str hotels like the pearl continental and the Avari for pennies and even cheaper in the normal places we decidied to carry on our 1 month long trek to the valleys of swat and chitral on a icolating and bud mission but we first needed to go back to jamrud and get the chronic whcih we did , and things went smoothly from now on haha

time for some pix heres jamrud and the real gardah and also what a weed shop looks like and my firend haji saab

This is a very interesting story. Thank you for posting and telling us.
I love that last photo of the gooey hash between your hands.
Sorry you lost your stash, lucky you were able to buy off the cops and not go to jail. Being arrested in Pakistan is not a good idea!!!
Stay safe and tell us more about your trip. Please post lots of photos of Pakistan. those are very interesting.

[smokaholik]

hiya ronley. thanx for da intrerest mate , do worry abut da stash mate out in pakistan weed is in abundance and next to nothing pricewise

after staying in peshawer for 2 days we pcked up and left to go to the valleys of swat and chitral situated in the Hindukush mountains whe we where hopn to do some trekking and find skunk growing to icolate. now i had spotted plants al over islamabad where it is in abundance and peshawar ( u can smell the skunk in d aair everywhere) but it seemed to be only just started flowereing as few pistils where present, and we whee told to go further north into higher climate so we left


Pakistan is so Gorgoues and rugged it is amazing, every province is different and has its own vaired environments, to get to Swat ther ewas only only one road ova a mountain pass the got higher and higher wiv our driver getting faster and faster while we passed him spliff after spliff of chronic, after travelling for about 6 hours heading north from peshwar we went past the road to dir ( which leads to Chitral which is 340 km from peshawar only accessible in summer thru the mountains) and landed in the Heavenly valley of Swat, now Swat vally is huge and we headed thru all the main towns such as mingora, kalam by whch timew is ti was pitch blackoutside and and we whee still no where near where we wanted to be, so we travelled on to a place in Swat called Malam Jabba, to get here we travelled thru mountains at night and when u looked out of the car it loooked like the darkness of space, only the stars visible , so when we gotto the PDTC hotel and got a 3 bedroom room for 2700rps for da night we looked out the window and could see nothing , we just had a smoke, a munch and went to sleep not knowing what surprises the emorning would bring

And wow whata surpise when i got up rooled a spliff and look outa da window this is what i saw I was SPeachlesss


pixs of the mountain road to swat , swat area of pakistan and our view from out hotel at night and in da morning

[smokaholik]

look at the oil on the slpliff lol

The culture and 'condiments' of that entire region have interested me for some time now.

But, alas, based on your treatment by the toll station cops, how long would it take a very caucasian, sub-arctic yank like myself to be in an uncomfortable position against a wall, and headed for an earthen-floored cell? Seriously.

Or worse, have some local confuse me with someone who actually -supports- Bush's bullshit, simply 'cause I'm from the States? I'm not being contrite. I'm seriously asking an opinion. Thanks

Nice pics, and excellent info.

moose eater

[smokaholik]

moose eater my carcuasion friend and me are going back next month, thats how much he loved it an dhe is actually russian, remeebr the soviet war and yet he was loved and treated wiv geneoristy by all, a typical example would be that we met someone in the street and they would say or ure forieghnours and even tho they only earn 100rps a day they would go and buy 4 bottles of coke at a cost of 40 rps togive to us, i sually to feel embarssed and would offer to buy them but no way, u r there guest and they pakistani will give ther life for there guest

the toll statin cops arent that bad , i went thru several times again wiv a few hundred grams and no problem, infact i was smoking in a riksha when i policeman came ova, the riksha drive told the officer to fuckoff but all the officer wanted was a smoke lol,
so we smoked lol, infact most officers in pakistan smoke and when they realise ure foriegn they leave u alone, islamabad is full of westerners and travllers, photographers and business men all ready to go up noth trekking

Thanks smokaholik. That's much more reassuring than what our State Dept. likely would've given me in their brochures!! ;^>)

Sounds very hospitable, indeed!

Thanks again.

moose eater